A skill your agent uses when planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end, from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze, the October deadline, the four-day January response…

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Install Mlsys Workflow

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mlsys-workflow -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills mlsys-workflow --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/MLSys-Skills/skills/mlsys-workflow .claude/skills/mlsys-workflow && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
mlsys-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
743 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end, from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze, the October deadline, the four-day January response…

  • Planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end
  • SKILL.md covers The 2026-cycle shape, Backward plan from the paper…, Standing team rituals and Failure modes by stage, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • From venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze

What it does

Mlsys Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end, from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze, the October deadline, the four-day January response, notification, camera-ready, the March artifact-evaluation submission, and the May conference, with backward planning built around scarce GPU time and team ownership.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end
  • From venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze
  • The October deadline
  • The four-day January response

Example prompts

  • “/mlsys-workflow”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Mlsys Workflow loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 743 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 743 words, ~1,710 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/mlsys-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
mlsys-workflow
description
Use when planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end, from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze, the October deadline, the four-day January response, notification, camera-ready, the March artifact-evaluation submission, and the May conference, with backward planning built around scarce GPU time and team ownership.

MLSys Workflow

Use this as the project-management skill for a Conference on Machine Learning and Systems submission. MLSys runs one cycle per year, so a missed gate costs twelve months or a reroute to another venue. All dates below are the verified 2026-cycle timetable (access 2026-07-08) — treat them as shape, and replace every one with the current mlsys.org dates page before committing a plan.

MLSys is a conference with rotating per-edition leadership (2026: General Chair Luis Ceze; Program Chairs Zhihao Jia and Aakanksha Chowdhery) and no APC — proceedings publish open on proceedings.mlsys.org, and the money side is registration, where accepted-paper authors get a two-week reserved-ticket window.

The 2026-cycle shape

Gate2026 anchorWhat it demands
CFP and track choiceSummer 2025 (CFP publicized ~August)Research vs industrial routing decided
Paper + appendix deadlineOctober 30, 2025Frozen evaluation, blinded PDF, separate appendix upload
Reviews releasedJanuary 12, 2026All authors on deck immediately
Author response dueJanuary 16, 2026Four days — pre-planned, not improvised
NotificationJanuary 25-26, 2026Branch: camera-ready+AE, or postmortem+reroute
Artifact evaluation submissionMarch 8, 2026Badge-ready package + Artifact Appendix
AE windowMarch 8 - April 8, 2026One author on call for evaluator questions
ConferenceMay 18-22, 2026 (Bellevue)Registration inside reserved window, talk, travel

Backward plan from the paper deadline

Weeks outSystems-paper milestone
12+Bottleneck measurement done; mechanism designed; venue/track locked
10Baselines installed, version-pinned, tuning protocol agreed
8End-to-end prototype produces its first honest comparison
6Full experiment matrix launched — GPU allocation is the critical path from here
4Ablations and sensitivity sweeps done; figures generated from logs
3Complete draft in the official two-column style; internal review by one systems and one ML reader
2Evaluation freeze; only reviewer-anticipation runs remain
1Anonymity sweep, appendix assembly as separate file, bibliography full-author check
0Upload paper + appendix; verify both files from a logged-out view

The distinctive constraint versus ML-venue planning: the evaluation competes for shared hardware. Reserve cluster time for weeks 6-4 when the matrix runs, and again for the January response window, where two rebuttal experiments may need machines on two days' notice.

Standing team rituals

text
Weekly (weeks 12->2):
  - experiment-matrix review: rows launched / landed / failed, GPU budget burned
  - claims board: abstract claim -> supporting figure -> status (red/yellow/green)
  - baseline watch: new releases of compared systems since last week?
Once (week 3): mock review — one systems-culture and one ML-culture reader,
  scored on workload realism, baseline fairness, attribution, and tails.
Response-week protocol (pre-agreed in December):
  - who reads reviews hour 0, who owns machines, who drafts, who signs off

Failure modes by stage

  • Week 6 matrix slip: the sweep launches late, so ablations get cut — and ablation absence is precisely what MLSys reviews punish. Cut breadth (hardware variants) before cutting attribution (ablations).
  • Baseline rot: a compared system ships a major release in September; deciding whether to re-run everything at week 4 needs a pre-agreed rule ("re-run headline comparisons if the release notes claim >10% on our metric").
  • Response-window surprise: the four-day window found nobody available in January. It is on the calendar from the day of submission.
  • Post-acceptance pile-up: camera-ready, AE package, and conference logistics all land in February-March; assign three different owners at notification time.
  • Reroute paralysis after rejection: the systems-venue calendar (OSDI/SOSP/NSDI/ ASPLOS/ATC deadlines) should be listed in the postmortem doc before the decision arrives.
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The reroute decision, prepared in advance

Because the cycle is annual, "revise and resubmit to next MLSys" costs a year. Write the decision rule before the notification arrives:

Rejection patternIndicated move
Workload/baseline objections, mechanism praisedStrengthen evaluation, resubmit to next MLSys — the reviews are a work list
"Insufficient novelty, solid engineering"Industrial track next cycle, or a systems venue that weighs deployment insight
"Wrong audience" signals from both culturesRe-read mlsys-topic-selection; the project may be OSDI/ASPLOS/NSDI-shaped
Split reviews, one culture convincedRewrite for the unconvinced culture; the paper, not the project, missed

Maintain the alternative-deadline list (OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, ASPLOS, ATC, EuroSys, SC) with dates in the project doc from week 12, so a January rejection flows into a concrete February plan instead of a stall.

Ownership map (minimum viable)

  • Evaluation owner: matrix, logs, figure regeneration.
  • Baseline owner: versions, tuning parity, release watch.
  • Writing owner: 10-page budget, style-kit compliance, claims board.
  • Compliance owner: anonymity, appendix upload, OpenReview fields, deadlines.
  • (Post-acceptance) AE owner: package, badges, evaluator on-call.

One person may hold two hats; no hat may be unassigned. Industrial-track submissions add a sixth hat that academic teams forget: the internal-approval owner, who clears company names, trace releases, and benchmark numbers with legal/PR — a process whose latency routinely exceeds the writing itself, so it starts at week 10, not week 1.

Cycle-volatility warning

Every date above, the track structure, the response-window length, and the AE mechanics are 2026 facts. The 2027 CFP was not yet visible at access time (待核实, all of it) — rebuild this table from mlsys.org before planning a real cycle.

Output format

text
[Current stage] fit / building / evaluating / writing / submitted / response / decided / AE
[Next official gate] <date + source URL>
[Critical path] <three tasks, with GPU-time dependencies flagged>
[Claims board] <claim -> figure -> status>
[Ownership] <evaluation/baseline/writing/compliance/AE -> person>
[Risk register] <matrix slip / baseline rot / response availability / logistics pile-up>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in MLSys-Skills/skills/mlsys-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Mlsys Workflow

What does Mlsys Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end, from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze, the October deadline, the four-day January response…. Mlsys Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end, from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze, the October deadline, the four-day January response, notification, camera-ready, the March artifact-evaluation submission, and the May conference, with backward planning built around scarce GPU time and team ownership.

When should I use Mlsys Workflow?

Mlsys Workflow fits situations like: planning an MLSys submission cycle end to end; from venue-fit and track choice through evaluation freeze; the October deadline; the four-day January response.

How do I install Mlsys Workflow in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mlsys-workflow -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (MLSys-Skills/skills/mlsys-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/mlsys-workflow in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Mlsys Workflow in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mlsys-workflow -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (MLSys-Skills/skills/mlsys-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/mlsys-workflow in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Mlsys Workflow in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mlsys-workflow -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/mlsys-workflow, .gemini/skills/mlsys-workflow, .github/skills/mlsys-workflow and .opencode/skills/mlsys-workflow in your project.

What does Mlsys Workflow need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Mlsys Workflow is instructions for the agent only.

Does Mlsys Workflow access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Mlsys Workflow safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Mlsys Workflow use?

Mlsys Workflow is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Mlsys Workflow use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Mlsys Workflow?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,216 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.